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Systemd incompatible with mounted /usr

Posted Mar 3, 2011 22:52 UTC (Thu) by AndreE (subscriber, #60148)
In reply to: Systemd incompatible with mounted /usr by DOT
Parent article: Quotes of the week

Is it your job to also understand the problems of udev? Or is that the job of systemd developers to point that out to you? Did the systemd developers write udev?

Yes, the message could have been worded better, but it seems that the underlying problem would be known to anyone who is already using udev and having a separate /usr/ partition.

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Posted Mar 3, 2011 23:23 UTC (Thu) by DOT (subscriber, #58786) [Link]

Systemd doesn't have to warn in the first place; that's a nice extra. But whatever it says, should be clear. The current message reads like systemd will blow up or silently kidnap your first-born when using a separate /usr. I admit that I was pleasantly surprised to be pointed to an explanation in the README. I also tried to avoid passing judgment. I simply observe that people are understandably ignorant about software they don't have an intimate relationship with. Said ignorant people should obviously not call developers idiots either.

I think I've now managed to piss off all participants in this thread. Sorry about that.

Systemd incompatible with mounted /usr

Posted Mar 3, 2011 23:24 UTC (Thu) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]

That's what I thought, at first. I knew udev has certain limited problems with a separate /usr (no such problems for me: I don't need any of the udev extras that rely on things like the PCI db). But the failure message never mentioned udev at all, so I assumed systemd had *more*, unique problems.

And if there's one thing that I don't like to experiment wildly with, it's init(8).